Phosphazene-catalyzed desymmetrization of cyclohexadienones by dithiane addition

• Matthew A. Horwitz,
• Elisabetta Massolo and
• Jeffrey S. Johnson

Beilstein J. Org. Chem. 2017, 13, 762–767, doi:10.3762/bjoc.13.75

• ; desymmetrization; dithiane; iminophosphoranes; organocatalysis; phosphazenes; Findings Desymmetrization has become a well-developed strategy for the construction of complex molecular frameworks [1][2][3][4][5][6]. Cyclohexadienones are multipurpose synthetic building blocks that have found a central role in